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breaking news

Frederick Small opened Scout camp here

Rose W. Ross of Jupiter, who formerly worked at the Jupiter branch of the Palm Beach County Library System, wrote recently to ask about Frederick Small Road.

Here’s what we wrote in August 2001:

Q: I have recently received a request from a visitor to Jupiter who is asking how Frederick Small Road got its name. I’ve been unable to locate anyone at Town Hall with this information and am hoping you may be able to point me in the right direction. Any information you can provide will be appreciated. — Melinda S. Miller, information systems director,Town of Jupiter.

Q: You said Donald Ross Road was named after a young Lake Park resident. I thought it was named after the golf course designer of the same name. Also, who was Frederick Small Road named after? — Jim Lipsit, Jupiter.

Q: We just moved to the area and were wondering who these people were that had roads named for them. Example, Frederick Small, Donald Ross (as in your article), etc. Where can I go to find the others in our area of Jupiter/Juno? — Karen Baumgertner, Jupiter

A: Small was a Palm Beacher who donated $2,700 in the 1940s to buy 40 acres along the Intracoastal Waterway, 2 miles south of Jupiter, for Camp Frederick Small, believed at the time to be the South’s only Boy Scout camp for blacks. The Scouts sold the site for $240,000, using some of the money to improve Camp Tanah Keeta, now open to everyone.

Some presume Donald Ross Road was named for Donald Ross, the golf course architect, especially since it runs near Seminole Golf Club in North Palm Beach, a famed Ross course. It’s actually named for Donald Alexander Ross, the first Lake Park resident killed in World War II.

Read more about the origins of Palm Beach County place names on the map here.

The information shared is very interesting. Nathaniel J. Adams was my Grandfather, but unforutantely I neverr had the pleasure of meeting. As my son prepares to become the first African American to earn the rank of Eagle Scout for a BSA Troop that is part of the northeast Georgia Council, it would be great if I could locate more information on Nathaniel J. Adams and his role with the BSA in the Gulfstream Council, from 1940 through 1970

If you have any information, please contact me via email at v_daughrity@yahoo.com.

My dad, A. P. "Pat" Patterson , the Boy Scout Executive for the Gulfstream Council and his black assistant Scout Executive was Nathaniel Adams opened this camp for the boys in the late '40's thanks to the generosity of Frederick Small.